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A DAT IN HISTORIC AND BEAUTIFUL 

ANNAPOLIS 




WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF PLACES MADE FAMOUS 
IN AMERICAN HISTORY BY THE REVO- 
LUTIONARY WAR-STILL IN 
GOOD PRESERVATION 
IN ANNAPOLIS. 




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Copyright 1916 

by 
MYMNA THRUSTOM 




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A DAY IKf ANNAPOLIS 

By 

MTNNA THRUSTON. 



"Annapolis, the Capital of Maryland, 
received its name in 1708, in honor of 
Queen Anne, the then reigning Mon- 
arch of England. The appellation of 
'the beautiful city' has often been ap- 
plied to her, especially when clothe n in 
nature 's brightest livery. ' ' — Extract 
from Ridgeley's Annals of Annapolis, 
published in 1841. : : : : : : 



ANNAPOLIS. 

We left BaltiiiKti'c one bri^lit, clear moniiii<r in October, for 
Annapolis, "on pleasure ])eiit," deterinined for one day, at 
least, to leave dull eai-e, and the noises of the city behind us. 

We soon ])asse(l out into the open country, which never 
looked lovelier to our eyes; the woods brilliant in their autumn 
dress of scarlet and <:()ld, fringinjr meadows as g:reen as they 
had been in May, and here and there long rows of tall, shapely 
pine trees of darkest green, standing- like quiet sentinels at the 
edge of the woods. Above us were the cloudless skies as blue 
as azure — a perfect day, indeed, foi- a i-eal holiday. 

After passing by several small villages, and many quaint 
little negi'o cabins, with theii" tiny "garden ])atches, '' ,we came 
to "the beautiful eit.w"" 

The charm of this old-woi'ld town, an hour's ride from 
Baltimore, and an hour and a half from Washington, for 
everyone who visits it, is hard to describe — it nnist be expe- 
rienced to be understood. 

Here we find many beautiful colonial homes of men of the 
most brilliant intellect that the country has ever produced, 
who. by their brains and courage, hel])ed to nud<e our great 
Kei>ublic what it is today — free and independent, and all 
Americans owe tlieiii a debt of gratitude. These old houses, 
where Wwy lived their well-rounded lives, have been almost 
sacredly ])i'eserved fi'om the destroying hand of time. 

The dignity and repose of those earl\' colonial times seem 
to still linger here, casting its glamoui' over us. until we almost 
forget we are not still the s\d)jects of "good Queen Anne," for 
at ('Vi'vy turn we are reminded of lie)' reign. "Ainiapolis" 
means The ('ity of Anne, and the eluireli in the middle of the 
town was called "St. .\nne"s"' in liei- honor, and to which she 
pi'esented a set of bells. Duke of (iloucester Street, which 
diverges fi'oiii ('liiirch ('ircle. was named for hei" little son, the 
only one of her seventeen children that survived babyhood, 
and he died at eleven years of age, which we cainiot wonder at 
happeinng, when we read of the hard lessons his tutors crowd- 

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ed into his little brain, to prepare him to be a king. Cornhill 
Street, Fleet and Conduit, are namesakes of great streets in 
London that were fashionable in Queen Anne's time, and 
' ' Prince George ' ' Street was named for her husband. A merry 
group of girls, who had come down for the Academy Hop, 
dressed in the latest modern styles, passed down the street with 
their midshipmen escorts, and made us realize that we were 
now Americans, and "subject" to no one, but if George Third 
had been as kind to us as Queen Anne we might not have 
longed for freedom and independence at all. 



THE STATE HOUSE. 

The State House, with its white dome, is to be seen from 
every part of Annapolis, and we chose the steps that lead into 
the grounds nearest the De Kalb statue, and so avoided the 
long, steep steps at the front and back of it. Baron De Kalb 
was a gallant Frenchman, who came over to help us during the 
Revolutionary War. He was mortally wounded at Camden, 
S. C, in 1780, and one hundred years later, 1883, the American 
Congress erected this statute of him in Annapolis, designed by 
Ephraim Kevser, a ^Maryland sculptor. 




Entcriiifi' tile beautiful white marble eorridor of the State 
House, the portraits of tlie four signers of the Declaration of 
Independence for ^laryhmd (each of the thirteen States had 
four "signei-.s") hung liigh on the walls, AVilliani Paea. Sam- 
uel Chase, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. 
The old Senate Chamber opened on the right, and when we 
entered it, we were in the most historic room in the country, 
for here, December 23, 1783, George Washington requested 
Congress, at that time assembled in Annapolis, to allow him 
to surrender his sword, and retire to i)rivate life. Ilis great 
task was accomplislied, and America was free from the oppres- 
sions of King George Third, and all the States united under 
one Republic. The President of the Senate sat in the same 
chair that now stands on the raised platform at the end of the 
room, and about tlie fine old mahogany desk were seated the 
members of (.*oiigress on that eventful day. where we now stop- 
ped to enter our names in the visitor's book that lay on top of 
it. How the blazing logs must have sent their sparks crackling 
up in the chimney of the huge fireplace at the side of the room, 
that day in December, while ^lartha Washington, surrounded 
by her friends, sat in the little "Ladies' Gallery," and watch- 
ed her noble husband with pride, who received the thanks of 
Cfongress for his bravery and devotion to his country. 

In this room we also found a fine painting of Colonel Tench 
Tilghman, aide-de-camp to General Washington in the Revolu- 
tionary War, who said of him, "he has bei'n a faithful assistant 
to me for five years, and lias been in every action in which the 
main army was concerned, and a great part of the time refused 
l^ay." Colonel Tench Tilghman was born at Fansley, near 
Easton, Maryland, in 1744, and when thirty-one years old left 
his work in Philadelphia to join the Continental Army. When 
the British, under General Cornwallis, surrendered to General 
Washington, in October, 1781, he rode from Yorktown, A'^ir- 
ginia, to Philadeli)hia, the Seat of Government at tiiat time, to 
announce this great news to Congress, making th(> journey in 
four days. He received the thanks of Congi-ess, a sword and a 
horse. He died five years later in lialtimore, in his forty-sec- 
ond year, and was buried in old St, I'aul's Cemetery, where his 
grave is to be seen among many other Revolutionary heroes. 

Many original manuscrijits hang framed on the walls of the 
Old Senate Chamber that tell us, through the "Proclamations" 
passed by the men of JMaryland, their resolution to resist the 



tyranny of King^ George the Third, which eventually led to the 
Revolutionary War. By the Charter of Maryland, given to 
George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, the owner of the Pro- 
vince of Maryland, by Charles the First, the people of the 
Province were never to be taxed, but treated like Englishmen, 
in trading with England, but George the Third, through his 
own love of money, broke this solemn contract, and began to 
put a tax on various articles imported into Marjdand, espe- 
cially tea. I felt proud to see this Proclamation signed by one 
of my own ancestors, the stiff, old-fashioned handwriting on 
the paper yellowed with age. 

The little Ante-Chamber opening into the Senate Chamber 
has many historical paintings by the artist Mayer, and pic- 
tures of many of the Manor Houses of Maryland. In this room 
are engravings of the six Lords of Baltimore, owners of Mary- 
land until the Revolutionary War. By this time the line had 
become extinct, as Frederick, Sixth Lord Baltimore, left no 
descendants. 

George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, was granted the 
Province of Maryland for his services to England. He navi- 
gated up the coast of Maryland \^ilile in the Virginia colony, 
and then returned to England, but died before he could do 
anything towards sending settlers to his new land. He was a 
convert to the Roman Catholic Church, and married Anne 
Mynne, daughter of John Mynne, of Hertfordshire, England, 
to whom he was devotedly attached. She died, leaving him ten 
children. Later he married a second time. 

Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, fitted out an ex- 
pedition to settle his new Province after the death of his 
father. They sailed in The Ark and The Dove, under the care 
of his brother, Leonard Calvert, whom he appointed Governor 
of Maryland. He was married to Lady Ann Arundel, of War- 
dour. The jealousies of certain persons in England, who wished 
to deprive him of the Province of Maryland, kept him in Eng- 
land, but he guided its affairs through his brother, Leonard, 
and later, through his son and heir, with great wisdom. 

Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, spent much of his 
time in Maryland, and married Jane Sewell, the widow of 
Henry Sewell, the Secretary of the Province, and a daughter 
of Vincent Lowe. Their home was the Manor House of "JMat- 
tapeny-Sewell, " still standing in St. Mary's County, Mary- 
land. He returned to England, where Lady Jane died, and he 



later raan-iod l\Iary Cliarltoii, and at licr death, licr sister, ]\Iar- 
garet. Like his grandfather, George Calvert, and his father, 
Cecilius, he was a man of fine character. Lady Jane had sev- 
eral children at the time of her man-iage to Lord Baltimore, 
one of them. **Jennie,"' married Philip Calvert, the brother or 
half-lirotlicr of her step-father, and aiiolho'. Aiinr Scwcll. iiiai'- 
ried Colonel Benjamin Rozier, of Maiylaiid. 

Benedict Leonai'd, Foui'tli Lord Baltimoi'e. lived only thir- 
teen months after he inherited the Province of Maryland. He 
renonnced the Roman Catholic faith for political reasons. He 
mari'ied Charlotte Lee, danghter of the Earl of Litchfield. 

Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, spent only about six 
months in Maryland. He married Mary Jannson. danghter of 
Sir Thomas Jannson, of Surrey, England, and they liad seven 
childi'en. He was a man of very weak character. 

Fivderick. Sixth (and last) Lord Baltimore, never visited 
Maryland at all. He married Diana Egerton, daughter of the 
Duke of Bridgewater. There were no children of this mar- 
riage. He drew a large yearly income from his Province of 
IMaryland, whicli was governed for nmch of the time by his 
brother-in-law. Lord Eden. Frederick Calvert was selfish and 
extravagant, and was separated from his invalid wife. Lady 
Diana, who was said to have loved iiim devotedly even at the 
time of her death. 

At the side of this Ante-(*hamber is a pair of narrow, steep 
white stairs, and going up them we I'cniched the visitors" gal- 
lery in the Old Senatt^ (Chamber, the little steps that ^Martha 
Washington and her friends went up that ineiiiorial twenty- 
third of l)eceml)er, ITSH. 

The next room contains a revolving stand, with the auto- 
graphs framed of the first settlers of Maryland, who came over 
from England in the ships, The Ark and The Dove, also the 
names of the estates they rented in ]\Iai\vland from Lord Bal- 
timoi'e, with their queer titles, "Batchelor's Hope"' being one 
of them. This collection is of great interest to Maryland peo- 
ple. -Many now living in Maryland are descended fi'oiii these 
brave men and women, who faced so many hai'dsliips and dan- 
gers to )nake theii- homes in a new woi'ld. There is no outlet 
to this I'oom except tiii'ougii the Ante-Chaiiihei', and as we 
came out into the coi'ridor again, we admired a tine bronze bust 
of Admiral Schley, who won fame in the S])anish War, and 
was a native of Maryland, and lived in Annapolis. 



The Geological Department, displaying all the minerals to 
be found in Maryland, is on the left of the corridor, opposite 
the Old Senate Chamber. The most interesting objects here to 
many of ns were "the crown-stones" of the Mason and Dixon 
Line. Many people have tliought this was an imaginary line, 
denoting the people of the North and the South during the 
Civil War, but it was a line that two English civil engineers 
were employed to ' ' run ' ' to settle a controversy that had been 
going on for a hundred years over the boundary of Maryland 
and Pennsylvania, between the lieirs of George Calvert, First 
Lord Baltimore, and the heirs of William Penn. This dispute 
had even led to battles being fought by the followers of each 
party, and in 1763 this line was run by Jeremiah Dixon and 
Charles Mason to settle it. These crown-stones were placed 
every five miles, and had carved in the granite on one side the 
arms of Lord Baltimore, and on the other the arms of the 
Penn 's. 

From this room we went into a small ante-chamber, similar 
to the one on the other side, where are kept the furled and tat- 
tered flags of the Civil War ; the Flags of the Union and of the 
Confederacy. The sign over the door requests ' ' men to remove 
their hats, and all to speak in low tones," which was an un- 
necessary request to me, for having had "some of my blood" 
on both sides, these flags made me feel so sad that I was not 
sorry to spend as little time as possible here. A war between 
Americans, and often brothers, seems hard to realize at this 
present time, and we are all glad to forget it. 

A handsome pair of wliite marble steps leads from the cor- 
ridor up to the offices of tlie Governor of Maryland, and on the 
landing of them, is a beautiful painting of the scene in the 
Old Senate Chamber. George Washington laying down his 
sword, surrounded by Congress. 

We looked into the new Senate Chambers on the lower end 
of the corridor, where the Legislature of Maryland holds its 
sessions every other year, to make the laws of Maryland. 

Tlie bronze doors that lead to the outside steps are massive 
and finely carved with the Great Seal of Maryland on them. 
The large building opposite the State House is ' ' The Court of 
Appeals." The armorial windows in this corridor, by Tiffany, 
are very fine, representing the Great Seal of Maryland on its 
two sides. One shows Lord Baltimore in full armor, with 
drawn sword, gayly cantering on his steed; the other, his 



Court of Anns ami Crest, wliieli is a sliicld su])i)ortt'(l by a fish- 
erman and ploug:liman, surmounted In- a dueal erowii. Tliis 
seal is still the State Seal of ^Maryland. 

Ascending the Avhite marble steps, we went into tlie Court 
of Appeals, the highest Court in the State, a handsome room, 
M-ainseoated with mahogany almost to the ceiliiig, which is 
formed of a dome of stained glass, tliat cast a soft light on the 
deep, pinkish velvet carpet, thick enough to conceal all the 
noise of our footsteps. At tlic end of the room, on a raised 
platform, sat the eight judges : Chief Judge, A. Hunter Boyd ; 
Judge Burke, Judge Tliomas, Judge Constable, Judge Urner, 
Judge Pattison, Judge Briscoe and Judge Stockbridge, looking 
very judicial and dignified in their heavy black silk gowns. 
Before them, inside of a railing, a lawyei" was vigorously argu- 
ing his case, and having several generations of lawyer's blood 
in my veins, I wished to liear it to "the bitter end,'' l)ut time 
W'as pressing all too quickly, so we quietly left tlie Court Koom, 
to look in for a sliort time at the thousands of law books in 
The State Library, many of which can only be reached from 
little iron balconies, which have narrow spiral stairs leading 
to tliem. Here we found an almost complete set of the Old 
^Maryland Gazette, tlie first newspaper jjublished in America. 
A special cabinet has been made to preserve the copies of this 
paper, bound together in big flat books, a precious relic to 
Mary landers. It was first ]ud)lished by Jonas Green, in 1745, 
and his descendants continued to publish it for ninety-four 
years afterwards, it is a wonderful store house of the history 
of life in the Colonies, and more fascinating than any modern 
novel. Its yellow pages tell us of the times when Annapolis 
was the centre of fashion in the whole country, with its "play- 
house" balls and lotteries, which no one considei-ed wrong in 
those days, as they were often the means of raising money for 
churches and schools. Barges ])lied up and down tlie Severn, 
laden with gaily dressed ladies and gentlemen, witli their pow^- 
dei'ed wigs ; while long I'ows of sedan chaii's lined Duke of 
Gloucester Street, tlie location of the Assembly Room and Play- 
house of Annapolis. The harbor, so quiet and peaceful now, 
was daily full of large ships from England and the Barbadoes, 
and even in ISI."), it was one of the most important seaports in 
Ameri(;a. When Cln-istoi)hei' Hughes, a Marylander, brought 
a coi)y of the treaty of Ghent foi- President Madison to sign, he 



landed at Annapolis — a treaty between England and Amer- 
ica that has stood the test of one hundred years already. 

As we came out of the Court of Appeals Building, the Gov- 
ernor's Mansion was directly before us, with its garden of 
beautiful flowers and fine old trees. This cannot be regarded 
as a colonial house, being built in 1858, but it is a handsome 
residence of that period. In the drawing-room is a large por- 
trait of Queen Henrietta Maria, painted by Miss Florence Mac- 
kubin, a Maryland artist. 




King Charles liimself suggested that Lord Baltimore call 
his new Province for his Queen "Terra Mariae" (Maryland). 
The State of Maryland ordered this painting of Henrietta 
Maria, and Miss Mackubin was allowed to go to Warwick Cas- 
tle to copy the celebrated Van Dyck of her there. 

Our next point of interest was St. Anne's Episcopal Church 
on Church Circle, and on our way to it from the Governor's 
Mansion, we passed the artistic Memorial Fountain, erected to 
do honor to the memory of Rev. W. S. Southgate, a faithful 
rector of St. Ainie's for thirty years. A tall, graceful cross, 
with a wide basin of fresh water below it, where several horses 
were quenching tlieir thirst, seems a beautiful tribute to a min- 



isti'i- who. for so many ycai's, told liis congregation of "the Wa- 
ter of Life."" 

On the saiiu' hi'oad s(juai'e was a iuo(h'rn postoffiee, a nioiiu- 
niciit to the arehitect, who kept the colonial lines of Annapolis 
in huihlinji'. It is one of the most admired postoffices tlie Gov- 
cnnncnt has cNcr hiiilt, and we were sui'prised to hear it cost 
no moi't' than Mian\- an uuh' one its size. 




St. Anne's ("luii-ch, nanu'd foi- the reputed .Mothei- of tlie 
Vii"<iin, St. Ann, and in honor of Queen Anne of En<iland, is 
not as old as it <i'ives the impression of beiiiii', foi' it was built 
in ]858, but a church lias stood on this site since 1695. This 
fii-st one, falliufi' into (h'cay, was i'ei)h>eed ])y a larger one in 
1774, Queen Anne giving tlie bells for the belfry. An over- 
heated furnace caused the ehui-eh to be totally destroyed by 
fire, and the present one was immediately built to take its 
phice. Tile " furniture'" of the chur<'h was sa\cd, but the bells 
were melted by the fierce heat, and there is a legend that be- 
foi'e they became a shapeless mass of metal, they rang out a 
last farewell peal. The ((uaiut old Bishop's chair we saw in 
the ehureh iiuist have been part of the "furniture" saved. The 
sexton \\v found most obliging in showing us the ehureh, and 
he opened a little vault in the wall of the vestrv-i'oom, with a 



black iron door, to show us the Communion silver that King 
William had given St. Anne's. Each piece had his Crest en- 
graved on it, also the letter "R" (Rex-King). We had found 
Tn the Marvland Gazette of 1751, the notice that the law would 
be enforced, obliging every person in the Province of Mary- 
land to attend the services at their church or chapel on Sun- 
days and Holy Davs. On Monday the people absent were to be 
visited and fined, unless they had a lawful excuse. This seems 
a stern wav to make good churchgoers, but, perhaps, it has 
something to do with the people of Maryland today being the 
most constant attendants at church, as has been stated by high 
authority, for inanv of them are the descendants of the settlers 
of the Province that had to face the law on Monday if they 
had not been in their seats the preceding Sunday, and we all 
know that good and bad habits descend through many gener- 
ations of us. T -D 1 

The colonial house now used by the Farmers National Bank 
as a home for the cashier, and for a bank building, was once a 
hostelry, called Reynold's Tavern. It is on Church C^ircle op- 
posite St. Anne's Church. , , ^. . 

The pano's of hunger began to be felt, so we concluded that 
luncheon w^s very necessary just then, which we had decided 




to take at the modci-ii liotrl ilial lias been made from the his- 
toric Jioines of William Paca and the "Brice House" used as 
an Annex. To a stranger, the circles and streets of Annapolis 
seem to iiirlt mysteriously into each other, and we had to find 
our way by many directions, most politely given by young and 
old. We were told "to go down ]\lain Street, through Chan- 
eery Lane (which was a bricked pathway between two houses), 
and that we would come out on State Circle," which we did, 
and passed the little Treasury Building on the State House 
Grounds. It w'as built in 1694, and the General Assembly met 
here when the seat of Government w'as moved to "Anne Arun- 
del Town ' ' from ' ' St. Mary 's City, ' ' before there was any real 
State House. It was afterwards used as a Treasury for State 
funds. We turned down East Street, which quickly brought 
us to tlie Carvel Ilall Hotel. I'liis old colonial house, now the 




Carvel Hall Hotel, was built by Govei'nor William Paca, one 
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, in 1763. We 
i-ead in history of its l)eautiful garch'ii, looking towards the 
Severn River, which gives us some idea of the style of living 
in colonial days. We are told that a spi-inghouse was hidden 
among the trees and shrubbery. The brook running through 
the garden, fed by ai-tificial springs, flowed by the two-storied 



octagonal summerhouse, and the l3atli-house, supplied by water 
fro2u the brook, for enjoyment on sultry days, all have disap- 
peared now, but we can imagine what a charming surrounding 
it must have made for this tine old mansion. 

The Brice House, now an Annex of the Carvel Hall Hotel, 
was built in 1763, by Edmund Jennings, a famous lawyer of 
Annapolis, for his daughter, Mrs. James Brice. It is one of 
the handsomest of the colonial homes of Annapolis. Its high 
chimneys lift their heads far up above the three stories of the 
house, and small wings, now used as separate dwellings, extend 
on each side. The interior of this house is very beautiful, and 
the carved mahogany rail of the staircase extends to the third 
story. From the sitting-room, there was formerly a secret 
staircase, hidden in a closet in the bed-room above. We can 
only conjecture why it was put there, perhaps the owner was 
addicted to reading late at night and wished to reach his cham- 
ber without disturbing the liousehold. 

The Iglehart House, sometimes called the Jenning's House, 
opposite the Carvel Hall Hotel, was built by Mr. Jennings, 
who also built the Brice House on East Street for his daughter, 
Mrs. Brice. In those days it had an additional wing, which 
was afterwards taken down. It is said to have been the dwell- 
ing place of Samuel Chase, before he built the Chase Home. 

The Dorsey House, on Prince George Street, sometimes 
called The Marchand House, was the colonial home of Major 
Edward Dorsey, and the Legislature met here in the year 1694, 
before the State House was built. 

After a very delicious lunch at this modern hotel, we went 
down Prince George Street to St. John's College, which looked 
beautiful in the afternoon sunlight, its vivid green campus 
bordered by splendid old trees. This College was first called 
"King William School," and was under his patronage. It is 
said by some to have been the first, certainly it was the second 
college established in America. The central building is "Mc- 
Dowell Hall," and on its left is "Humphrey Hall," on the 
right "Pinkney Hall." Many noted men have been students 
here, among them General Washington's ward, George Wash- 
ington Parke Custis, Francis Scott Key, and two of Maryland's 
greatest lawyers, William Pinkney and Reverdy Johnson. On 
the campus, below Pinkney Hall, stands a noble and historic 
old tulip tree. No one knows its age, for the first settlers of 
Maryland found it here, and under its branches the^^ made a 



treaty of peace with the war-like Susquehannoeks, in 1652. 
When the Revolutioiiai-y Wai- was hejjnii against Enjrland, the 
iiihal)itants of Annapolis wei-e ordert'tl, with a beating of 
ilrnnis, to assemble nnder this old tree, and all persons not 
sigiiiiig the resolutions were oj-dered to leave the town, as they 




were regarded as encinies of their eonntry. When the Inde- 
pendence of America was declared, the jx'Ople of the town 
again met under it for a celebration of the joyfnl (>vent. George 
AVasliiiigton and General Lafayette are said to have taken tea 
undei- its shade, so it is often called to this da\- ■"the tea part^' 
tree." 

The Pinkney House, on St. John's Street, was the colonial 
home of the family of that name, and stood, a few years ago, 
where the Court of Appeals Building is now. The owners of 
it were much opposed to it l)eing pulled down, and the State 
of Maryland had it moved by mechanical skill to its ])i-esent 
situation, whej-e it was ])laced on a new foundation ])repared 
for it. The ehinuiey of this old hou.se is especially noticeable 
for being directly in front of the hou.se. 

Ogle Hall, which is at the corner of College Avenue and 
King George Street, was built l>y Governor Ogle, in 1742. lie 
was one of Lord Baltimore's governors, and was so devoted to 



his horses tliat he built them a brick stable at the end of his 
plot facing the street. This old house was later occupied by 
another Governor of JMaryland, Governor Pratt. Like so many 
houses of that period, the handsomest side of the building is 
towards the gardens. The tiny little balcony in the second 
story at the front of the house is an unusual feature of this 
old house. The wing of the house was taken down and two 
modern houses built of the bricks. 

Leaving the campus, near Woodward Hall, we went down 
King George Street and around the corner to Maryland Ave- 
nue, as it was our intention to go into the Chase Home, the 




only one of the colonial liouses that may be visited for a small 
fee. This house was begun and partly built by Samuel Chase, 
who was called "The Demosthenes of Maryland," for his elo- 
quent speeches to arouse the patriotism of the men of his State 
before the Revolutionary War. It took many years to build a 
residence of this size in those days, as all the bricks had to be 
bought from England, and before it was completed, Judge 
Chase sold his home to Colonel Edward Lloyd, who finished it 
and lived here many years, when he brought his family from 
their beautiful estate on Wye Island to enjoy the gaieties of 
the Capital. Many years afterwards, a descendant of Samuel 



("Iiasc iH'canif the owner of it, and at lici- dcatli, left it to be 
used as a home for ladies of moderate means. Francis Scott 
Key, the author of the immoi-tal "Stai"-Si)ang'U'd Banner/' was 
married hei-e to Miss Mary Tayhx- Lhiyd, a daughter of Col- 
onel Edward Lloyd. She was one of the belles of Anuapolis. 
and like many other belles have beeu, "she was cruel before 
she was kind,"' for it was said that she made curlpapers of his 
love-somiets, and took pains that he should hear of it. The 
large hall, with its wide wdiite steps leading to th.e second story, 
diverging on eitiier side at the landing, make a most beautiful 
staircase. In the drawing-room and dining-room, which open 
on each side of the hall, we found the most exquisite w^ood carv- 
ing, all handwork, and finely carved marble mantle ])ieces. ma- 
hogany doors, with their little silver latches, and nmch colonial 
furniture. Mahogany wood, so valuable to us now, because so 
scarce, was used lavishly when the Cliase Home was built, as in 
those da\s logs of it were brought fi-om the Harbadoes, to Ital- 
last the ships. Even the pantry doors were of this costly wood. 
The cabinet of china used by Sanuu4 Chase, decorated with his 
crest, stands in the hall, and the "eagle" mirrors on the w-alls 
are fine specimens of antiques. The drawing-room carpet has 
here and there bunches of roses scattered over it, and the little 
spinet, w^th the tall glasses to keep the candles from flickering, 
that stood on the top, made us almost feel as if a young lady 
with ringlets on her shoulders might have just left it. 

The Harwood House, directly ()i)posite the Chase Home, 
was built later in 1780, and is greatly admired for its artist- 
ically carved door, and window above the door, all hand-carv- 
ing. It wasbuill for Mi'. William Hannnond, who was engaged 
to be married, and went to Pliiladeli)liia to buy the furniture 
for his house, but his engagement was broken, and he died a 
bachelor, nevei- having occupied liis new home. He sold it to 
Ciiief Justice .Jeremiah Townley Chase, who added to it for his 
daughter, Fi-ances Towailey Lookerman. The hand-carved 
woodwork of tliis old colonial house is said to be the most beau- 
tiful arabesque cai'ving in iMai'yland. It is now owned by a 
descendant of Chief Justice Chase, Miss Hester Harwood. 

The Tilton House, on Maryland Avenue, is another colonial 
house that was built about the same ]>eriod as the Chase Home 
and the Harwood House. 

The Peggy Stewart House, on Hanover Street, was the 
home of Anthony Stewart, who was compelled by the people of 



Annapolis to burn his ship, "The Peggy Stewart," because it 
had brought over a cargo of tea, upon which George the Third, 
had unlawfully placed a tax. His Mdfe was an invalid, and he 
ran it up on the beach at Fort Severn, now the Naval Academy, 
in order that his wife could see the burning of her namesake 
from the upper windows of her home. 

Our tour of dear, quaint old Annapolis was completed, and 
like Rip Van Winkle, we had to rub our eyes before going 
down to our modern Naval Academy, which was directly be- 
fore us as we come out of the Chase Home, on Maryland 
Avenue. 

There are many other fine colonial homes in Annapolis, 
among them are Randall Court, on State Circle, the William 
Pinkney House, on Charles Street, home of one of Maryland's 
most brilliant lawyers of Revolutionary times, and opposite to 
it, the quaint and attractive house of Jonas Greene. He here 
published the Maryland Gazette in 1745. The Ridout House, 
on Duke of Gloucester Street, is a splendid specimen of col- 
onial architecture, and near it is a group of three beautiful old 
houses that John Ridout built for his children. He was one 
of the first colonists of the Province of Llaryland. 

CarroUton, the home of Charles Carroll, one of Maryland's 
most noted statesmen during the Revolution, is opposite to the 
Ridout House, and was built in 1732, l)ut it is now a seminary 
for Catholic priests, and the high walls almost conceal it from 
view. 

The Richard Carvel House, near it, on Shipwright Street, 
has been made famous by Winston Churchhill in his book 
"Richard Carvel," but with an author's privilege, he has de- 
scribed the old Carvel Home on Kent Island and placed it on 
this spot in Annapolis. It has certainly this connection with 
the story, that JMr. Churchhill lived in this old house wdiile 
writing his book. It was built by Dr. Upton Scott, whose wife 
was the great-aunt of Francis Scott Key, who lived here with 
Mrs. Scott, when he attended St. John's College. 

Many of the colonial houses took six or seven years to build, 
as the bricks had to be brought from England, a three month's 
voyage, but they were built so well that they are in perfect pre- 
servation. 

Most of the principle residence streets were named for 
Queen Anne 's family. Prince George Street, for her husband, 
the Prince of Denmark ; Duke of Gloucester Street, for her lit- 



tic son; Ilaiiovci' Stn-ct, because she was of the House of Ilan- 
ovci' ; Kiiifr (u'oi'j^e Sti'cct was iiained foi" ({eor<re the First of 
England: Fleet. Cornliill and Conduit Sti-ccts, for celebrated 
streets in London: ("luii'ch Circle and State Circle, because St. 
Anne's Chui'cli and the State House are on them. 

The City Hotel, on Conduit Street, is one of the old colonial 
buildings, and has the distinction of having had George Wash- 
ington for one of its guests, and it is also said to have been here 
that Admiral Paul Jones laid his plans for forming the Amer- 
ican Navy. The Old Assembly Room, where the beaux and 
belles of Annapolis danced, when it was called "the Paris of 
America," is in the City Hall, on Duke of Gloucester Street. 
General "Washington is said to have attended a ball held in this 
"(,)U1 Assembly Room."' 

THE NAVAL ACADEMY. 



The Naval Academy, the school for training officers for the 
American Navy, is one of the best equipped for the i>urpose in 
the world. 

The handsome gray stone buildings have a beautiful na- 
tural setting, with the waters of the sparkling Severn River at 




the back of them, ami the fine ohi trees and wide green lawn in 
front. The little sailboats gracefully glide over the blue waters 
with their wide white sails outstretched like the wings of a sea- 
gull. This "tidewater" river draws up salt from the sea, so 
far away as Cape Charles and Cape Henry, through the Chesa- 
peake Bay. 

We went into the Chapel and adndred its beautiful stained- 
glass windows. By a short pair of steps near the entrance on 
the inside, we went down into the crypt of the Chapel, where 
rest the ashes of John Paul Jones, the first Admiral of the 
American Navy, brought over from France by Admiral Porter 




several years ago, where they had laid in a forgotten church- 
yard in Paris for more than a hundred years. Groui)ed at in- 
tervals around the walls are the Admiral's flag, witli the Stars 
and Stripes. The tomb itself is of black marble, with bronze 
ornaments. 

We found the doors of Bancroft Hall hospitably open to 
us, which has, in the centre of the building, the Midshipmen's 
Recreation Room, and on each end their "mess" and sleeping 
quarters in the wings. Many tablets were on the walls in mem- 
ory of midshipmen who had heroically lost their lives, and a 
beautiful bas-relief of a sailor in bronze, life-sized, which the 



Dauprhtcrs of the Rcvohitioii jjlaccd tlicro in 3911, in memory 
of The Amerieau tSeamen, who fought for the ludependeuce 
of the United States. 

We went throiigli the <>lass doors at the side of the room, to 
the baleon\- outsith'. and the most beautiful view of tile An- 
napolis hai'bor, with the light-liousc in the distance, was before 
us, beyond the drillinji' grountls and athletic field. Lying near 
the sea-wall was the Si)anish cruiser, "Reina ^lercedes, " which 
was sunk by the Spaniards in the harbor of Santiago, in an at- 
tempt to block the entrance. After the Americans took Cuba, 
this ship was raised, repaired, and taken to the United States. 




It is now used as a Hccciviiig-Shii) foi' the Naval Academy. Tt 
looks so peaceful and dignified in its di-ess of pure white paint, 
that it is hard to realize its ])ast adventures. 

As we came out again into the gi'ounds, a large Indian's 
head of wood attr-a<'te(l oui- attention. We leai'ued it was the 
figui-e-head Tecumseh fi-om the old U. S. S. Delaware. It was 
the likeness of a great chief of the Delaware tribe of Indians, 
who lived during the Revolutioiuiry jxM'iod, whose name was 
'raiiiaiieiid. 

The -lapanese bi-ll on the grounds was also of int<^i"est to us, 



whicl] we were told was given to Cominondore Perry in 1854 
by the Regent of the Lew Chew Islands, belonging to Japan. 
At his death in 1858, the bell was given to the Naval Academy 
by his widow, as he had requested should be done. 

We went into the Library Building, which is also the Edu- 
cational Depai'tmeiit of the Academy, the Library being in the 
centre. We had been under the impression that we had been 
a very peaceful nation, with a few exceptions, until we saw all 
the trophies we had captured, flags in glass cases set into the 
walls of the Library Building, which have lately been reclaim- 
ed from the relentless hand of time by a large force of two 
hundred and fifty ladies, whose work covered six months, at 
an expense of nearly twelve thousand dollars to the Govern- 
ment. This collection of flags is one of the most beautiful and 
interesting to be found in the country, and two that especially 
appealed to us, because they related to such recent history, 
were, number fifteen, captured under fire from a Boxer barri- 
cade, by Joseph JMitchel, Gunner's Mate, 1st class, of the Lega- 
tion Guard, at Peking, China, during the Boxers' siege, July 
12, 1900; and the Jack of the U. S. Battleship "Maine," blown 
up in the harbor of Cuba, February 15, 1898. Tliis Union Jack 
was daily in use, and was found rolled up at the foot of the 
Jack Staff, ready to be hoisted the next morning. 

The Administration Building, Power Houses and Officers' 
Club, on the left of the IMaryland Avenue Gate, complete the 
Naval Academy buildings, except the Superintendent's house, 
which is very handsome, and the rows of houses where the offi- 
cers live. There are three of these groups of houses, called 
Upshur Row, Rodgers Row, and the most modern of them, near 
the lower end of the grounds, built of cream colored bricks, 
called Sampson Row. 

The building at the right of Bancroft Hall is the Armory, 
and on the left, the Gymnasium. In this last is held the fa- 
mous "Academy Hops," a popular feature of the Midship- 
men's life. 



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